Semana Santa Sevilla Festival Photo Tour & Workshop

 

A unique photo tour and workshop with Roger Nelson

and our partners at Spain Adventures

April 1 - 8, 2012

 

Easter Week, Semana Santa, is the main fiesta in Seville Spain.   It's a celebration that reaches levels of aesthetic and spiritual intensity that make it unique among all Easter Week celebrations.   From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, nearly sixty hermandades (confraternities or brotherhoods) take to the streets to bring the Passion and Death of Christ to life.

 

Easter Week in Seville is considered an art form in itself, as well as being the manifestation of a profound spiritual feeling.  It is a complex and sometimes paradoxical phenomenon.  It is a truly popular experience in which everybody takes part, both young and elderly, religious or not and without any class distinctions.  It is a celebration which is at the same time religious and artistic, serious and joyful, simple and luxurious.

 

On arriving in Seville during Easter Week, your first step is simple: let yourself be seduced by your senses, and breathe in the subtle aroma which permeates the city air.  It is a unique kind of incense, with touches of caramel, and the scent of orange blossom.   It is easy to be overwhelmed by the heartfelt and profound singing of a saeta, an old tradition of singing a special flamenco style of threnody or the silence of crowds which seem to flow down the streets like rivers, always leading us on to a procession, or the moment when a float is leaving or entering a church.

 

Join me and our host, Spain Adventures, to capture the images of a lifetime.   Witness the processions from special vantage points in the thick of the activities and enjoy also the quite moments often away from the official route.   Be with us in all the perfect spots to witness the arrival of the confraternities on their way to the Cathedral.   Soft candle light will highlight the baroque style of some of the extremely expressive images, such as the "Cachorro", considered by many to be a masterpiece of the representation of Christ's agony.   Good Friday, together with Easter Saturday, are truly the best days to enjoy Seville.   You will be part of the "madrugá" (the small hours) the series of processions which run all through the night until the next morning, beginning on late Thursday night and ending on Friday morning.   This is the highlight of the week and one of the most popular nights of Semana Santa.

Trip Ratings

 

Physical Demands: 2      Comfort: 4      Culture Shock: 2

 

 

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Semana Santa Sevilla Photo Tour by Spain Adventures

 

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